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In my opinion you're close, but on a slightly wrong track. I don't think the country is divided along North/South lines anymore; it's divided along the lines between urban and rural populations, wherever they are located.
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I agree, and saw this earlier that illustrates it:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic.../countymap.htm
This election may have been close numerically, but geographically it was an 83% - 17% landslide. |
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"Geographically"? Looks like USA Today's working overtime in their map department.
That's gotta be one of the *worst* analyses of the election I've ever seen.
That's like saying the 1000 people that voted in a giant, virtually unpopulated county in Alaska count the same as the million votes from New York, Los Angeles and the Bay Area combined.
What I want to see are the exit poll results from the number of people that said yes to the "did your pastor tell you who to vote for" question that was never asked. I think many people took the "Jesus is my sheppard" analogy far to litterally and basically allowed the church to cast a huge vote in the election. It's one thing to apply your own sense of morals to your selection, it's another to be told by your pastor that you're going to hell if you don't vote for a Republican.